#SFTechWeek · Tech Week by a16z

AI in Healthcare

Exploring AI in healthcare, and bringing physicians, investors and founders into the same room.

Date
Friday, October 9, 2026
Time
5:00 PM ET
RSVP on Partiful

The address is on the invite.

What we will talk about

Three things worth an hour.

The front desk

What a practice actually loses to the phone

A missed call is not a missed call. It is a patient who books somewhere else, and most of them never call back. The arithmetic on that is worse than it looks and it is the part of a practice nobody measures.

The EHR

Why writing into the chart is the hard part

Answering a phone is the easy half. Putting the result into athenahealth through an official API, with an audit log behind it, is where most voice AI stops and where the work really starts.

The room

Physicians, investors and founders, together

Healthcare AI gets discussed in two separate rooms: one with clinicians and one with capital. The useful conversations happen when they are in the same one.

About Tech Week

A week of events across the tech ecosystem.

Tech Week by a16z is a week of events hosted by startups, founders, investors and communities. SF Tech Week runs October 5 to 11, followed by LA Tech Week October 12 to 18. This is one event in it.

Who is hosting

MedPhone AI.

A HIPAA compliant AI front desk for medical practices. It answers the phone, books and reschedules appointments, and handles refill requests inside the practice EHR through official APIs. It is live in production on athenahealth as a verified Marketplace Partner.

Come by on the ninth.

Friday, October 9, 2026, 5:00 PM ET. RSVP on Partiful and the address comes with it.

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